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SEGARPGFAN this week released his WIP performance improvement hack for SEGA Touring Car Championship. This improves the overall performance in all five tracks, especially in Time Trial mode, resulting in…
Best Of Saturn
Vandal Hearts is a 1997 Japan-only strategy RPG ported to the Saturn by the KCE Nagoya team. Like Konami’s Castlevania conversion, Saturn Vandal Hearts suffers from a lack of Saturn…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, Sokkou Seitokai (a.k.a. Sonic Council), a Saturn fighting game based on a manga series that ran in Gamest magazine, goes under the microscope. It’s well-documented (in Japanese…
Community
With a stake to the heart, the SHIRO! community has laid the Monster Slider challenge to rest. Prize patch design by SaturnDave Seven brave SHIRO!s spent the month of October…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Phantasm – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night #BestOfSaturn – Catching Up On New October…
News
Another busy week for Sega Saturn English translation patches. This time half of the patches are for fighting games, which mostly pull English text right from their worldwide releases. There…
Community
The 10th SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online NetLink/Xband Tournament, Daytona USA: Circuit Edition For Sega Networks, crossed the finish line earlier this week, ending just under three months after the initial…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: There’s a hidden debug mode in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner, but it’s disabled in the retail version of the game. I’ve made a patch to re-enable…
Best Of Saturn
Simply titled Phantasm in Japan, Phantasmagoria is a 1995 Sierra On-Line PC original that was ported to the Saturn in Japan in 1997. Best played using the Shuttle (or NetLink)…
News
Construction with cubes is at Saturn fans’ fingertips with QuadWorld, a homebrew game seeking to bring the magic of Minecraft to Sega’s 32-bit console. Longtime Saturn homebrew developer SuperReye has…
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A fan decompiled the original console versions of groundbreaking action-adventure titles Shenmue and Shenmue II, opening the door to new mods, ports to other platforms and more. LemonHaze uploaded the…
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Back in 2020, TrekkiesUnite118 put together a work in progress Final Fantasy 1 Saturn port using the NES version as a base. Demonstrating the progress he’s made in our SegaXtreme…
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What used to be wishful thinking is now reality, thanks to Joe, aka SEGARPGFAN, who is bringing more SEGA Saturn games online for those using NetLink and Xband modem cartridges….
News
It’s been hard keeping up with all the new things to play on Saturn, with a couple of “finished” English patch projects and several new public beta patches all being…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – ★ MAINLINE CAST: EP 10 – Getting Culder: Discussing The Magic: The Gathering/Monopoly Hybrid, Culdcept! – Under…
Best Of Saturn
Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) is a Japan-only 1998 Saturn port of Konami’s excellent PlayStation game. Dracula’s castle has mysteriously reappeared, and as his…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re examining Phantasm, the Saturn port of the controversial PC game Phantasmagoria. This Japanese-exclusive release featured celebrity voice actors and new music, and spanned a record-setting eight…
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Hacker Patchyfluffy has released an English patch for the pet simulator Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park, an exclusive to the Saturn. As the name suggests, you run a park…
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Prolific Saturn hacker KoolFiller has released one of his most ambitious projects to date over on SegaXtreme, a hacked version of Athena‘s 1997 Saturn shmup maker Dezaemon 2 that not…
Best Of Saturn
GunGriffon 2 is Game Arts’ 1998 follow-up to their well-received 1996 GunGriffon: The Eurasian Conflict. Set in the same “future year 2015” as the first game, GunGriffon 2 offers a…
News
A new anime adapting 1993 manga Magic Knight Rayearth debuted last week, breathing life into a property that was featured in one of the Sega Saturn’s most beloved games. The…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Updates for PlanetWeb, Sega Touring Car Championship Leaderboard – Frogbull Presses On With Metal Gear Solid Saturn…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re examining Time Bokan Series: Bokan to Ippatsu! Doronboo Kanpekiban, the 1997 shoot-em-up for Saturn from Eleven and Banpresto. Japanese cheat sites (like this one and this…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast! Episode 10: Getting Culder: Discussing The Magic: The Gathering/Monopoly Hybrid, Culdcept! Air Date: 2026-10-10 Patreon Early Access: 2026-09-30 On the latest episode of…
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Big news for Saturn fans was shared this week in the SHIRO! Discord: Two Japanese-exclusive, online-only Saturn titles thought lost to time have been cracked open by one of the…
Best Of Saturn
Sensing an opportunity to put their expertise from creating the Wonder Boy games to the test, studio Westone produced the Saturn-exclusive Willy Wombat. A 3D overhead platformer with full freedom…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
My favorite Japanese cheat site has three codes listed for Langrisser IV, the tactical RPG from Career Soft: Sound Test: Enter A, Z, Y, X, A, Z, X, Y on…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Heir of Zendor – Saturn Port of Pu·Li·Ru·La Gets English Fan Translation – Waku…
News
KoolFiller isn’t kooling down anytime soon when it comes to his Saturn hacking, releasing yet another English translation yesterday morning to download on SegaXtreme. Having just released the first volume…
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Saturn homebrew developer Frogbull, or “Frogbullsh*t” as some may affectionately say, posted a massive update to the Metal Gear Solid porting project. A video on the dev’s YouTube channel posted…
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Last week, Xiden released updates for both PlanetWeb and the Sega Touring Car Championship leaderboard, which makes using the NetLink or Xband modem cartridges for browsing and submitting STCC times…
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In September, a user on GitHub known as pepa released an English fan translation for Snatcher on the PlayStation 1, labeled as release v0.5. After various iterations over the month,…
Community
It’s Spooky Season, SHIRO! community! To celebrate, our October Community Challenge will be a monster mash of an action puzzler! Success in this slippery stacker will require participants to be…
News
An English translation patch for the Saturn home-exclusive action puzzler Monster Slider is now available! While this patch was created specifically for the October SHIRO! Community Challenge — more details…
Best Of Saturn
While 1998 was the death knell for the Saturn in the West, the East saw well more than 200 releases, including Datt Japan’s strategy RPG Valhollian. Set in a medieval…